Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control. To be Held at the Spring House Hotel in Block Island, Rhode Island.

本提案的目的是向国家科学基金会申请资金，以部分支持即将于2003年6月10日和11日在罗得岛布洛克岛的春屋酒店举行的布洛克岛合作控制研讨会。该研讨会的主要目标是汇集来自动物生物学、机器人学、自动控制，通信和传感器网络，人工智能，动力系统，算法等，在群体协调和合作控制的兴趣，而不是主要介绍他们目前的工作，而是描绘共同点，并确定在迅速发展的，跨学科领域的自然和人造群体的合作控制的基本未解决的问题。智力优点：近年来，一方面，人们越来越感兴趣地了解各种动物群体，如鱼群，鸟群，鹿群等，如何协调它们的集体运动以执行有用的任务，另一方面，如何组织移动的智能体，如AUV群，UAV群等，例如，在生态学和进化生物学中，了解自然群体如何协调自己，如何在没有明显领导者或任何形式的集中控制的情况下无规则地移动，是非常有趣的。他们必须使用什么样的信号？如果有的话，物理介质、环境背景、水流、涡旋或其他局部环境扰动在这一过程中起什么作用？是否存在协调的群体运动的普遍原则？如果存在，它们可能是什么？这些原则是否可以用于机器人环境中，以帮助使空中、陆地、海洋或水下的大量自主功能车辆能够以安全和协调的方式集体完成有用的任务，如分布式、自适应的科学数据收集、搜索和救援以及侦察？广义上讲，这些都是这个研讨会要解决的问题。更广泛的影响：这个研讨会将促进发现和理解，同时促进教学，培训和学习，包括学生参与研讨会。讲习班将通过鼓励代表性不足的群体积极参加讲习班来扩大他们的参与。毫无疑问，这一高度跨学科的会议将通过显着增加参与者之间和上级机构之间的跨学科研究的潜力来加强研究和教育的基础设施。讲习班将通过一个简短的会议记录以及随后向广泛的半技术社区进行的介绍和出版物来扩大传播，以提高对科学和技术的理解。

The purpose of this proposal is to request funds from the National Science Foundation in partialsupport of the forthcoming Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control which is scheduled totake place on June 10 and 11, 2003 at the Spring House Hotel on Block Island, Rhode Island.The primary objective of this workshop is to bring together a small number of individuals fromsuch fields as animal biology, robotics, automatic control, communications and sensor networks,artificial intelligence, dynamical systems, algorithms, etc. with interests in group coordination andcooperative control not primarily to present their current work, but rather to delineate commonground and to identify fundamental unresolved problems in the rapidly evolving, cross-disciplinaryfield of cooperative control of natural and man-made groups.Intellectual Merit: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in understanding on the onehand, how various animal aggregations such as fish schools, bird ocks, deer herds, etc. coordinatetheir collective motions to perform useful tasks and on the other, how groups of mobile autonomousagents such as AUV schools, UAV ocks, etc., might be instructed to cooperate in a similar man-ner.In ecology and evolutionary biology, for example, it is of great interest to understand hownatural groupings coordinate themselves and move so awlessly, often without an apparent leaderor any form of centralized control. What kinds of signaling must they use? What role if any,does the physical medium, environmental context, currents, vortices, or other local environmentaldisturbances play in this process? Are there universal principles of coordinated group motion andif so what might they be? Could such principles be used in a robotic context to help enable a largegroup of autonomously functioning vehicles in the air, on land or sea or underwater, to collectivelyaccomplish, in a safe and coordinated manner, useful tasks such as distributed, adaptive scientificdata gathering, search and rescue, and reconnaissance? In broad terms, these are the questions towhich this workshop is addressed.Broader Impacts: This workshop will advance discovery and understanding while promotingteaching, training and learning by including student participation at the workshop. The work-shopwill broaden participation of under-represented groups by encouraging such individuals toactively participate in the workshop. Without question, this highly interdisciplinary meetingwill enhance infrastructure for research and education by significantly increasing the potential forcross-disciplinary research among participants and between parent institutions. The workshop willbroaden dissemination to enhance scientific and technological understanding by means of a publishedproceedings and well as by consequential presentations and publications to a wide semi-technicalcommunity.